"Common Frequency's newest Board member, journalist Sue Wilson,
was the guest for today's =Making Waves= on KDVS. We talked about an
aggressive progressive named Ryan Clayton confronting Andrew Breitbart,
the conservative provocateur, at the Netroots Nation conference last
Friday. Sue was there.

Sue says Breitbart "is trying to run away from the monsters he's created." He is being sued by one of his victims,
but his attacks on NPR, ACORN and Rep. Weiner are all considered
successes. And she also debunks the myth of the focus group-tested meme
that "the liberal media" controls American thinking.

Plus, we discussed the questionable judgment of CNN devoting so much
airtime to Erick Erickson, another incendiary partisan allowed to, as
David Brock of Media Matters
says "disable journalism".

Normally I devote my attention to local,
independent public media but I think what's really important here is
the outrage Sue speaks to, about what Breitbart represents in terms of
the crumbling standards for information dissemination in our democracy.

And stay tuned because we wrapped the show with a clip from Wilson's documentary Broadcast Blues,
a dramatic story of two journalists who were fired by a Fox affiliate
for refusing to lie about a story on Monsanto the station preferred to
silence. Sue took the film on an 11-city tour through Florida, encouraging more citizens to demand public interest obligations from broadcasters.

In case you missed it, Radio or Not's own Nicole Sandler scored an interview with none other than Breitbart protege James O'Keefe . He told Nicole he just seeks the truth. This is the guy who pretends to be a journalist but uses Borat tactics of asking crazy questions using hidden cameras, then maliciously edits the answers so they don't resemble the actual interview, but instead furthers his own skewed agenda. The guy I wrote about here who pretended he dressed as a pimp to walk into an ACORN office (that lie was debunked by Brad Friedman over at BradBlog.com.)

(That's O'Keefe, in his pimp get-up, on the left. A journalist he is NOT.)

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Sue Wilson tells important stories which move politicians to act. She is the Emmy winning director of the media reform documentary "Broadcast Blues" and editor of SueWilsonReports.com.
Broadcast Blues sets its sights on media policy, and www.SueWilsonReports.com turns a critical eye on the media itself.
She recently formed an activist site, http://www.MediaActionCenter.net